the blue banana

The African doctor is an inspiring story of the life of Seyolo Zantoko and his family who move from Zaire to France in 1975. Seyolo is the only African to graduate from medical school in Lille,France in 1975.He turns down an offer to be the personal physician of the Zairean president on ethical grounds and ,instead, takes up an offer from the Mayor of Marly -Gomont, a small village in Northern France, to serve as a doctor there. The Zantoko family -Seyolo ,his wife Anne and their two kids Sivi & Kamini, move to Marly-Gomont and how they overcome prejudices to finally become accepted, forms the rest of the story.  The villagers do not patronize Seyolo's practice, because he is black ,and he is forced to work as a farm hand to feed the family.Meanwhile ,his wife Anne keeps pressuring to move to Brussels,where her relatives live. Added to this,Lavigne, the contender for the Mayoral post wants Seyolo out. In the run up to the Mayoral election, Anne leaves for Brussels a...

  In Melilla, a Spanish enclave surrounded by Morocco , hundreds of African refugees try to climb a barbed wire to enter "Europe". Mateo, a Spanish guard witnesses his colleague Javi strike down one of them who falls down dead, . Meanwhile , in distant Cameroon, the killing of an elephant reserve`s star elephant by poachers is inadvertently witnessed by seven year old Adu and his elder sister Alika.The forest guards along with their Spanish external advisor Gonzalo , arrive too late to find the elephant`s carcass and Adu`s abandoned bicycle. How the seemingly unconnected stories of Adu , Gonzalo and Mateo intersect forms the plot of the movie - Adu. Adu and his sister Alika , having lost their mother to the vengeful poachers , decide to undertake an arduous journey to Spain to join their father. They travel from Cameroon to Senegal , where their aunt pays a human trafficker to put them on a flight to Spain. They are cheated by the trafficker and asked to travel as stowaways i...